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Sharing Video from Jocelyn Chow & Vance Lin on Gobi cross-desert 7 day event

Final countdown for Sundown Ultra

After a few month of preparation, still cannot avoid uncertainty. About a week ago, I caught a flu. Even with medicine and vitamin C, I still have a stuffy noise and a little bit of cough, but no fever. I was forced to taper in the last 1.5 weeks.

Gathering everything I need for Sundown, here they are:


Items included:
- 4 singlets/T-shirt (2 as spare)
- Nike belt pouch
- Nike running cap
- Skins long tight
- small towel
- Injinji sock x 2, wrightsock x 1
- various food items (Nature valley energy bar, electrolyte, hammer gel)
- 100ml small water bottle
- Patt strap
- Garmin 305 with HR monitor
- Asics Kanji
- Nike Pegasus RC
- blink blink light
- Creative Zen Stone MP3 player
- deep heat rub
- Leukoplast
- Petrolum jelly
- laminated card containing my plan
- Sundown bib - 0040

Arab Street in Nikon Club outing

The outing is organised by Nikon. The participant should be using a Coolpix camera. Therefore, I dust off my old Coolpix 5000. It is old (~6 years) but still working fine. I believe amount all participants, I have the oldest camera.

I shoot most of them using the add-on lens WC-E68 which convert my 28-85 zoom to 20-60mm. RAW on the Coolpix 5000 is way too slow. Therefore, I uses fine JPEG with saturation +1, sharpening +1. With the add-on lens, there is significant barrel distortion.

Sundown Race Pack

I went to collect my Sundown rack pack on 24-May. It is located in the Millenia Walk.
I was there around 8pm. It is pretty quiet. I got my race pack within a minute.


The Race Pack is loaded inside a big bag. The content are:
- a can of 100+
- a can of water from Park Connector
- The bib with 0040 being my bib number and safety pins
- a luggage tag for the luggage deposit and two stickers for the Ultra transition bag
- another big bag as transition bag
- The Adidas singlet
- some coupons
- a leaflet about the east side part connectors.


The singlet is a very body hugging design. I have the L size and it fits a tight though usable. The material is thin and extremely lightweigth. It is branded as Adizero. The design is fine but I am not planning to use it during the Ultra.


The bib has a RFID sticked to the back of the bib. It kind of makes the bib "rigid". The people at the counter told me not to fold the bib.


With 300 Ultra runner, I don't think it is a good idea to use the Sundown bag as transition bag. I need to come up with my own bag that make me easier to find.

Bukit Timah Nature Reserve Panorama

Both Panorama uses Nikon D200, 20-35 f/2.8 lens. Around 10+ photos are taken for each panorama and stitched together using Photoshop CS3. Each panorama contains about 70Mpixels.

At the Visitor Center. 1/80s, f/2.8, iso 200


At the Summit, 1/120, f/5.6, iso250

Interval Training 400m x 5

Haven't done an interval training for a few week. Gonna to do one to keep it up. 400m x 5, 2 mins brisk walk in between.

Southern Ridges

Singapore has opened the new Southern Ridges which links Harbour Front all the way to West Coast Park via Mount Faber, Telok Blangah, Kent Ridge Park. The two newly opened link bridges are called Alexandra Arch and Henderson Wave.

Here is the link to the National Park webpage.

I started from my home along the Alexandra Road, go to the Alexandra Arch entrance to Mount Faber. Originally, I want to go all the way down to Harbour Front. However, the last park is a trail with no street light at all. It was 10:30pm and I did not have a torch light with me. Therefore, I decided to U-turn early.




The portion linking Alexandra Road to the Telok Blangah Park is a steel bridge which is quite narrow. And it is all the way up slope with lots of twisty turns. I feel that it is not good for running. Since I did it at night, I am not able to enjoy the tree-top scenery. Maybe I should do it again sometime in the day time.

My First Stitched Panorama

In the last weekend, I join an outing around the Esplanade area. I tried in taking multiple picture through a 360 degree and see if I can stitch them into a 360 degree Panorama. This is my first attempt. I put the camera into manual exposure. Though I forgot to put it into manual WB. The picture below is actually using auto white balance. I turning around a virtual center which suppose to be the first element of the lens. I was using a sigma 10-20mm at 12mm f/5.6 in landscape orientation. As a aftermath, there is some vignetting at the corners. I should use a longer focal length, say 20mm at f/8, may be in portrait orientation instead. Well, this is my time, learn from the mistake next time. The stitching is done in Photoshop CS3. I use the auto mode and it works quite well. A total of 6 photos are taken.